Covid-19 Australia: Strain more transmissible than Delta hits Australia

A pedestrian walks past a row of telephone boxes on July 4, 2021 in London, England. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

The world’s most transmissible Covid-19 strain has found its way into Australia – with worrying research revealing it may be even more infectious than the Delta variant.

The Lambda strain has puzzled World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists after it spread to nearly 30 countries in the last four weeks. The mutation was originally discovered in Peru and is related to 81 per cent of the country’s cases since April.

Lambda was last month declared a ‘Variant of Interest’ by the WHO, which noted that it was “associated with substantive rates of community transmission in multiple countries.”

Almost all social restrictions related to Covid-19 are anticipated to end in England on July 19. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

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